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Council approves rezoning for 11900 Parklawn Drive to allow self-storage with binding elements
Summary
The council approved local map amendment H‑154 to rezone 11900 Parklawn Drive (Lot 6, North Bethesda Industrial Center) from EOF to ILF to permit redevelopment as a three‑story self‑storage facility, subject to binding elements including use limits, consolidated access, façade placement and prohibition of parking between building and street.
The Montgomery County Council voted to approve local map amendment case H‑154, a rezoning request for the property at 11900 Parklawn Drive in North Bethesda (Lot 6 in the North Bethesda Industrial Center, plat 9530). Council staff and the hearing examiner recommended approval after a four‑day administrative hearing; no parties filed opposition in the record.
Planning staff summarized the proposal as a redevelopment of an existing four‑story office building and surface parking on roughly two acres into a three‑story self‑storage facility. The resolution before the council incorporates binding elements intended to align the project with the master plan. Those elements include limiting use of the site to self‑storage, consolidating vehicular access to a single point on Parklawn Drive, requiring at least 70% of the front façade to be located within 35 feet of the property boundary, and prohibiting parking between the building and the street to promote street activation.
Councilmembers voiced support for the hearing‑examiner‑recommended resolution. A motion to approve was offered and seconded; the clerk conducted a roll‑call vote. The motion passed with recorded “yes” votes from the council members present (11 yes, 0 no). The council president thanked the hearing examiner and staff for their work on the case.
The approval means the zoning on the property will change from EOF (Employment Office) to ILF (Light Industrial Floating). Under the binding elements, the use restriction and site design controls will run with the land and be enforceable as conditions of approval.
